Favourite Directors

[PurpleRain]

Pretty much what the title states. Who's you favourite director at the moment? Right now I feel like watching a bit of John Carpenter. The Thing, Halloween, Assult On Precinct 13, The Fog. This man just reaked of movie greatness. Yet all of his films are so underated and either remade or had crappy sequels ruined by other directors. Yet The Thing is still a pure example of horror containing the ever present undertone of AIDS which was a big issue at the time and still is today. Plus he made Kurt Russel cool.

 

[Hey Joe]

Wes Anderson. I don't care that all his movies are basically the same movie, I still love him dammit!

I'm also into Kurosawa but not because of his Samurai movies, but because of his gangster flicks like High and Low and Drunken Angel, and if you ever get the chance watch Ikiru. I reckon it's his best film just ahead of Ran and Seven Samurai.

 

[PurpleRain]

Wes Anderson. I don't care that all his movies are basically the same movie, I still love him dammit!

Hey, I still love the guy. He's chearnd out some great horror movies. If we're naming horror then Tube Hooper would also be up there with the orginal Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Sam Rami with Evil Dead 2 and 3. I've yet to watch the first one. (Cuts self)

 

[J-Val]

George Romero, for the zombies.
Tim Burton, for the zaniness.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, for the zombies on steroids.

 

[MrE]

George A. Romero or Sam Raimi for that bit of horror all tho Sam's movies arent scary but still good and Kevin smith or Judd Apatow for a good laugh

 

[Hey Joe]

Wes Anderson. I don't care that all his movies are basically the same movie, I still love him dammit!

Hey, I still love the guy. He's chearnd out some great horror movies.

I think you're thinking of Wes Craven. But I can see The Royal Tenenbaums as a slasher. Totally.

"Royal, are you dying or not!?"
"I dunno...maybe"
"Well now you're going to!"

And the Anjelica Houston slashes Gene Hackman in the face....classic.

 

[PurpleRain]

Wes Anderson. I don't care that all his movies are basically the same movie, I still love him dammit!

Hey, I still love the guy. He's chearnd out some great horror movies.

I think you're thinking of Wes Craven. But I can see The Royal Tenenbaums as a slasher. Totally.

"Royal, are you dying or not!?"
"I dunno...maybe"
"Well now you're going to!"

And the Anjelica Houston slashes Gene Hackman in the face....classic.

(Slaps head) That went straight over me. Wes ANDERSON is also great as well. His movies are sometimes just odd or off beat which is great.

 

[Projekt Spartan]

Peter Jackson, for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and for King Kong.

 

[Thegreatoz]

Ridley Scot and then i would have to say Tarentino

 

[Larenxis]

Michel Gondry.

 

[GrowlersAtSea]

The Wes Anderson/Wes Craven exchange in here made me laugh, mostly because I was going to name Wes Anderson.

Most of his movies are quite good, and I fell in love with the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou for reasons I cannot even explain.

Peter Jackson has my respect for making a working, popular movie Trilogy with the Lord of the Rings, and King Kong was a great monster-type movie (the T-Rex fight was just so over the top and spectacular).

The Coen brothers have also been responsible for some great movies. I've always thought Fargo was overrated, but I really did like No Country for Old Men. On the lighter side, O Brother Where Art Thou, and the Big Lebowski (to a significantly lesser extent, but still) I thought were fun movies.

 

[sebboh]

Guy Ritchie. Only seen a couple of his movies *Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* but that really was amazing enough for me. Hurry, before ze germans get here.

Also a hearty agree to Quinten Tarintino, hes da man.

 

[sebboh]

Yet The Thing is still a pure example of horror containing the ever present undertone of AIDS which was a big issue at the time and still is today.

The aids, didn't know he would use that for inspiration but it makes sense, cool.

 

[PurpleRain]

Yet The Thing is still a pure example of horror containing the ever present undertone of AIDS which was a big issue at the time and still is today.

The aids, didn't know he would use that for inspiration but it makes sense, cool.

Yeah. Noone knows who's the Thing? Which one of them is the alien. Sort of like the fear that other people might have aids and nobody else knows.

 

[romitelli]

Uwe Boll hahaha

 

[Akirasfriend]

Yeah. Noone knows who's the Thing? Which one of them is the alien. Sort of like the fear that other people might have aids and nobody else knows.

That was so cool in the game, trying to find out if one of your team-mates was a rabid mutant beasty or not.

What? Oh, right.

I have to agree with Kurosawa, one of the best directors of all time. While we're going with the Japanese directors, 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano is fantastic; anime-wise, it's a toss-up between Mamoru Oshii, Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Otomo.

Also, Kevin Smith lolz.

 

[Frybird]

Ridley Scott, David Fincher and Danny Boyle are great

And James Cameron, before he decided to make one of the longest one-dimensional Lovestorys ever(?)

 

[niko86]

Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director of all time.

Best director around now probably Spielberg, M. Night. Sayamaraer or however his surname is spelled and Tarantino are also very good directors.

Akira Kurosawa, Ridley Scott and Stanley Kuberick are brilliant too.

 

[RebelRising]

In no particualer order,

-Keven Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
-M. Night Shymalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Lady In the Water)
-Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Porco Rosso)
-Peter Jackson(Fellowship of the Ring, Return of the King, King Kong)